Link: https://www.golem.de/news/innenminister-wir-muessen-den-begriff-e-sport-ausradieren-1811-137955.html
The ruling coalition in Germany has plans to acknowledge E-Sports in union- and association rights (so basically people can found official clubs with certain benefits covered by the German law) and to support them in creating Olympic outlooks.
This plan was referred to as being "catastrophic" by the same politician.
His reasoning is, that he wants kids to go back to gyms and playing fields instead of sitting in front of a console.
He also mentions that E-Sports are not being played out by rules of sport associations but instead by the rules of American companies.
-->"E-Sport hat mit Sport nichts zu tun. Wir müssen diesen Begriff ausradieren"
"E-Sports have nothing to do with sports. We need to exterminate that term"
The ruling coalition in Germany has plans to acknowledge E-Sports in union- and association rights (so basically people can found official clubs with certain benefits covered by the German law) and to support them in creating Olympic outlooks.
This plan was referred to as being "catastrophic" by the same politician.
His reasoning is, that he wants kids to go back to gyms and playing fields instead of sitting in front of a console.
He also mentions that E-Sports are not being played out by rules of sport associations but instead by the rules of American companies.